Dublin City (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Dublin City
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Dublin
Borough	Dublin
1264 (1264)–1801 (1801)
Seats	2
Replaced by	Dublin City (UKHC)

Dublin City was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition in 1801.

History

Dublin City had an electorate of between three and four thousand, making it the largest of the county-borough constituencies. In the 1760s the radical politician Charles Lucas used the seat as his political base. ^[1]

It was succeeded by the Westminster constituency of Dublin City in 1801, remaining as a two-seat constituency. ^[2]

Members of Parliament, 1264–1801

• 1376: ^[3] John Blakhorn and John White were elected to come to England to consult with the king and council about the government of Ireland and about an aid for the king.
• 1557 James Stanihurst (speaker) ^[4]
• 1560 James Stanihurst (speaker) and Robert Golding ^[4]
• 1569 James Stanihurst (speaker) ^[4]
• 1585 George Taylor and Nicholas Ball ^[4]
• 1613–1615 Richard Bolton and Richard Barry ^[4]
• 1634–1635 Richard Barry and Nathaniel Catelyn Speaker ^[4]
• 1639–1649 Richard Barry and John Bysse ^[4]
• 1654–55: Daniel Hutchinson
• 1656–58: Richard Tighe
• 1659: Arthur Annesley
• 1661–1666 William Smith and Sir William Davys ^[5]

1689–1801

Election	First MP			Second MP
1689 [6]	Sir Michael Creagh			Terence MacDermott
1692	Thomas Coote			Sir Michael Mitchell
1695	William Handcock			Sir John Rogerson
1703	John Forster		Whig	Benjamin Burton		Whig
1715	John Rogerson
1727	Samuel Burton			William Howard
1728				John Stoyte
1729				James Somerville [a]
1733	Humphrey French
1737	Nathaniel Pearson
1749	James Digges La Touche [b]
1749	Charles Burton [c]			Sir Samuel Cooke, 1st Bt
1758				James Dunn
1761	James Grattan			Charles Lucas		Radical/Patriot
1767	Marquess of Kildare		Patriot
1771				William Clement
1773	Redmond Morres
1776	Sir Samuel Bradstreet, 3rd Bt		Independent
1782				Travers Hartley
1784	Nathaniel Warren
1790	Lord Henry FitzGerald		Patriot	Henry Grattan		Patriot
1797	Arthur Wolfe			John Claudius Beresford
July 1798	George Ogle		Whig
1801	Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Dublin City

Notes

1. Created a baronet in 1748.
2. Declared not duly elected in 1749.
3. Created a baronet in 1758.

Elections

1790 general election: Dublin City ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Patriot	Henry Grattan	1695
	Patriot	Lord Henry FitzGerald	1695
	Pro-Government	Lord Mayor John Exshaw	836
	Pro-Government	Alderman Henry Gore Sankey	776

References

1. Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary. "County Dublin". History of the Irish Parliament. Ulster Historical Foundation.
2. Jupp, P. J. (1986). "Dublin". In Thorne, R. (ed.). The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790–1820.
3. ( Clarke 1932–34 , p. 126)
4. McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641. Department of History (PhD thesis). Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206.
5. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 614.
6. O'Hart 2007, p. 501.
7. Grattan, Henry (1841). Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Volume 3. H. Colburn. p. 463.

Bibliography

• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN   978-0-7884-1927-0.
• Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons . Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.
• Clarke, Maude V. (1932–34). "William of Windsor in Ireland, 1369-1376". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature. 41: 55–130. JSTOR   25515963.